I won't be drinking tea at exactly 11:11 am, but I know that before and after I'll continue to enjoy the Puerh that I started at 8:30 am. Its the last of a Mandarin Tearoom sample of 2000 Hon Tai Chang's Chi Tse Pin Cooked Pierh. The first few steeps were not that appealing to me but now that I've gone past 5 steeps each steep is better than the one before.

I've been drinking this wuyi from yunnan sourcing all morning. I think I probably should have used more leaf in my pot, but it's still been delicious. I think this is the most "standard" tasting tea of the oolongs I've been taking for test drives. It's got a strong tea base, a very very slight astringency, but a very smooth sweetness on the back-end. This is my third steep, and it's the best so far.

At 11/11/11 I was drinking the most awful of teas for the caffeine: a horrible, dry, dusty, stale fishy genmaicha, with more rice than tea, available from the only local loose-leaf tea store in the territory. This store carries five teas. I ran out of 'real' tea and I'm waiting (not-so-patiently) for at least one of six orders to arrive...So I'm wondering: does this mean that what comes after this auspicious tea-moment must surely get better? Or is this prophetic tea-moment an evil omen of worse to come...

I was working on some Yin Zhen Silver Needle from Jing Tea Shop this morning. Did not mark the time, too crazy/busy at work. But a good tea day nonetheless, now working with some Diamond TGY from Norbu.

At 11/11/11 11:11:11 pm PST, I was enjoying some 2010 Fall Lao Tai Di (Old Plantation) Qing Xin from Norbu, bulk brewed for the thermos, on a long drive home. Haven't yet decided what tea to start today with yet.